Apr 18, 2013; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov (30) carries his broken stick off the ice against the New Jersey Devils during the third period at the Wells Fargo Center. The Devils defeated the Flyers, 3-0. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports

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There's no carefully dancing around it anymore-the Flyers aren't making the playoffs.

Thanks to a New York Rangers victory Friday night, the Flyers will officially miss the playoffs for the first time since 2007. Even if they win each of their remaining four games, the Flyers won't finish above .500.

"Everything went wrong this year," Jakub Voracek, the Flyers' leading goal scorer, said after practice Friday. "When we got on that hot streak and won four games in a row I thought, 'OK, here we go. We're going.' Then we had a couple games where we were tied in the third period and we just got an unlucky ...